Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel was an Austrian monk and biologist whose work on pea plants led to the establishment of the principles of heredity. He is often called the father of genetics for his discovery of the fundamental laws of inheritance. His experiments with pea plants in the mid-19th century revealed that traits are inherited in predictable patterns, which he articulated as the laws of segregation and independent assortment.
Books
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1. Experiments on Plant Hybridization
This seminal work in the field of genetics presents the results of a series of experiments conducted on pea plants, which led to the discovery of fundamental laws of inheritance. The author meticulously cross-bred different varieties of peas and meticulously recorded the traits of their offspring, leading to the formulation of the principles of segregation and independent assortment. These principles, which underpin modern genetics, explain how traits are passed from parents to offspring and how different traits are inherited independently of each other.
